POTN Aussie Club #5: Our focus rings rotate the other way too.

S7000 wrote in post #7378377
Quick bag question.

My Technics bag I use to carry my lappy, and also my camera gear in is getting pretty tatty and has some holes. I'm tossing up between the Crumpler 7MDH or the ThinkTank urban disguise 50. They can both hold a couple of lenses, and a body for a walk around, and a laptop to boot.

Any thoughts on them would be great. Ie. comfort, ease of use etc... ?

the 50 wouldnt hold my 15 inch MBP or a gripped body.....

ANGUS wrote in post #7378394
the 50 wouldnt hold my 15 inch MBP or a gripped body.....

Oh daym. Looks like UD60 is the way to go just to accomodate the mbp then.

How is the product though? Usability etc.

. Duplicate post

AndrewOz wrote in post #7377556
Lead guitarist for Grand-daddy Cool?

Grand-daddy Cool...I like that

miccullen wrote in post #7377940
Yep, I really like this one. Charvel Surfcaster, don't see many of them around.

Thanks. he knows how to use it pretty well, too.

AdamC wrote in post #7378112
Nice shots, but the colours look a little flat to me.

Thanks. Yeah, the JPEG conversion seems to have done something to them there..the original RAWs looks fine...I will have a play when I get a bit more time.

mcminty wrote in post #7378292
Rofl.

God, I've got 2 friends with macbooks, and they hadn't figured out they can use the two finger trackpad tap to right-click.
/facepalm

You can ? Well, I'll be...so you can..even on the old G4 Powerbook.

There you go, you learn something every day.

ANGUS wrote in post #7378394
the 50 wouldnt hold my 15 inch MBP or a gripped body.....

Thanks. Might head into town and check out the 7MDH then with my laptop and see how that goes.

Collin85 wrote in post #7378021
What did I tell you about the PC

Well it's only the ram, cpu was fine. I was thinking 4Gb wasn't really enough anyway as I'd run into troubles before - your just run into troubles a lot quicker with the larger raw files

fungry wrote in post #7378041
Stitching can be a pain like that. Who says you don't need a powerful PC to accompany photography ^^.

At least one that can address a lot of ram anyway.

ANGUS wrote in post #7378221
WOOO EPIC MULTI QUOTE... DONE THE OLD FASHIONED COPY AND PASTE WAY.... ON A MAC (NO RIGHT CLICK OR CTRL + V or CTRL + C)

Command (apple) + C (or V) for copy and paste :P

Ctrl and click for right click if you haven't turned on right click for the mighty mouse (trackpad is still Ctrl click).

ANGUS wrote in post #7378388
Ahhh i got it, its Command, ****ing weird!!

Yes, as it has been since 1984 :P

fungry wrote in post #7378420
Oh daym. Looks like UD60 is the way to go just to accomodate the mbp then.

How is the product though? Usability etc.

I love it, ill do a review this week for you and your welcome to have a look at it when im in sydney (ill be back next weekend if you want to see it, friday-monday)

Sounds good gus. I'll see what I got planned but your review should suffice

Sadness, my uni schedule is all over the place. I finish at 8 on Fridays GRRR.

DAdeGroot wrote in post #7378460
Well it's only the ram, cpu was fine. I was thinking 4Gb wasn't really enough anyway as I'd run into troubles before - your just run into troubles a lot quicker with the larger raw files

That's what I was getting at. With larger RAW files, your system would be taxed in only two areas: processor or primary storage (RAM). One can argue the case for secondary storage (HDD space) too, but that's a fairly easy fix. I remembered that huge pano you posted the other day, and immediately felt you'd have a much harder time doing the same thing with RAW files much larger. A slower processor will do things slower, but an insufficient amount of memory might stop the project in its tracks completely. Not sure if you're using 2x2GB sticks, but a 4x1GB configuration would be annoying as you'd have to buy all-new RAM.

Last time I tried an 8GB configuration, I also had stability issues with my mobo. Intel said my particular mobo's northbridge might have been the blame. Thankfully they've finally followed AMD's footsteps in moving the memory controller in-die with Nahalem, so I suppose I won't run into that particular problem again when I do my upcoming rebuild.

I miss my 8GB config...

Collin85 wrote in post #7378571
Not sure if you're using 2x2GB sticks, but a 4x1GB configuration would be annoying as you'd have to buy all-new RAM.

2 x 2G at the moment, have room for another 2 dimms, so I'll whack in another pair soon. Should be ok, and since I'm running a 64bit OS, I shan't have any issues addressing it.

DAdeGroot wrote in post #7378645
2 x 2G at the moment, have room for another 2 dimms, so I'll whack in another pair soon. Should be ok, and since I'm running a 64bit OS, I shan't have any issues addressing it.

Dave, you running a Mac Pro or something else?

Michael wrote in post #7378672
Dave, you running a Mac Pro or something else?

Kinda

Home made Mac Pro (Intel Q6600 2.4Ghz Quad Core, 4Gb DDR2-800, couple of largish HDDs, nVidia 8600GT-512, running OSX 10.5.5)

Ignore the false modesty people, Grigori is obviously running some sort of high-powered mainframe computer. A Fields Medalist cannot be on anything less.

I hope life has been good for you back at the Steklov Institute these few years, Professor.

Ok, that was stupid - 2mm deep cut through the end of my finger. D'oh.
Smarts somewhat.